Domestic Imaginaries

1. Introduction, Domestic Imaginaries: Navigating the Home in Global Literary and Visual Cultures; Bex Harper and Hollie Price.- Part I: Experiencing and Performing the Home.- 2. The Book, the Napkin Ring and the Salad Bowl: Creating the Perfect Kitchen (or not); Inga Bryden.- 3. Lonely Wives in Perfect Kitchens: The Finnish Suburban Home on Film; Essi Viitanen.- 4. Male Imagination and Representation of Home Spaces in Times of War: Julien Gracq's Un Balcon en Forêt (A Balcony in the Forest); Béatrice Damamme-Gilbert.- Part II: Transgressing Boundaries and Crossing Borders.- 5. Reconfiguring Traditional Domesticity in Latin American Women's Testimonial Literature; Sofia Maniscalco Mason.- 6. In Two Places at the Same Time: Archiving the Domestic in the work of Leonora Carrington and Sally Mann; Alicia Kent.- 7. Beyond the Borders: The Construction of Home and Diasporic Imagination in Chinese Canadian Women's Writing; Fang Tang.- Part III: Restoring, Documenting and Archiving the Home.- 8. Restoring a Home: Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia in Anna Mitgutsch's House of Childhood; Katya Krylova.- 9. Domestic Ethnography, Diaspora and Memory in Baba 1989; Nariman Massoumi.- 10. Queer Chattels and Fixtures: Photography and Materiality in the Homes of Frank Sargeson and Patrick White; Lee Wallace.

Bex Harper is an independent scholar, teacher, private tutor and life coach, based in London.

Hollie Price is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and a Teaching Associate at Queen Mary, University of London.